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Cylance

Cybersecurity · Irvine, United States · Founded 2012 Unicorn

Develops antivirus programs and other kinds of computer software that prevent, rather than reactively detect, viruses and malware

Valuation

$1–2.5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Revenue

$100–500M

Latest reported FY

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Headcount

100–500

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

14 investors on Cylance's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Khosla Ventures

Fairhaven Capital Partners

Alex Doll

Series B+ 11 investors entered at this stage

Dell

Blackstone

DFJ Growth

DNX Ventures

TenEleven Ventures

Capital One Ventures

Blackstone Tactical Opportunities

Dell Technologies Capital

Insight Partners

KKR

Thomvest Ventures

Cylance mafia

Startups founded by Cylance alumni

Former Cylance employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

HalcyonEst. 2021

Ryan SmithUnited States

Signal score96

Reach SecurityEst. 2020

CBColt BlackmoreUnited States

Signal score91

Obsidian SecurityEst. 2017

Glenn ChisholmUnited States

Signal score88

222Est. 2022

KKKeyan KUnited States

Signal score87

NetRiseEst. 2020

Thomas PaceUnited States

Signal score82

Ghost SecurityEst. 2022

Eric CorneliusUnited States

Signal score77

HiddenLayerEst. 2022

Tanner BurnsUnited States

Signal score77

BINARLYEst. 2021

Alex Matrosov.United States

Signal score70

SynqlyEst. 2023

Joel BaumanUnited States

Signal score70

BoldendEst. 2017

BRBraden RussellUnited States

Signal score62

CyvatarEst. 2019

Corey WhiteUnited States

Signal score60

Sevco SecurityEst. 2020

Greg FitzgeraldUnited States

Signal score58

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Global footprint

Where Cylance has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

6 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States89.5%

🇮🇪 Ireland2%

🇧🇷 Brazil1.7%

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates1.7%

🇯🇵 Japan1.7%

Top 5 of 6 shown

Web traffic by country

46K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States54.3%

🇯🇵 Japan32.2%

🏳️ Korea6.3%

🏳️ Republic of2.2%

🇮🇳 India1.7%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$44M patent portfolio · 81 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$44M

3.1% of valuation · 2.2× smaller than top peer CrowdStrike ($95M)

81 active patent families

Where Cylance innovates Data miningMachine learningComputer programLearning modelsAlgorithm

Where Cylance concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Cylance and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Cylance

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Cylance on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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